The School Day

The structure of the School week provides a taught curriculum from Monday to Friday. There are no lessons on Saturday at St John’s, but pupils are required for sporting activities where necessary.

The Lower School Day

The Lower School day starts with registration at 8.35am. There are five lessons every morning and lunch is taken at 1pm. There are two lessons after lunch with games taking place on Monday and Wednesday. Performance (Music and Drama), Creativity (Art) and Technology (Computing, DT and Technology) taking place on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

The day for Lower Third (Year 7) and Upper Third (Year 8) pupils ends with de-registration at 4.15pm. The day for the other year groups in the School finishes at 5.15pm . The boys and girls have the option to stay for supervised prep until 5.15pm.

Sample of a Lower School pupil timetable (Year 7 and 8)

The School Day - Fourth and Fifth Form

7:45am - 8:10am

Breakfast for Boarders

8:30am

Day Pupils arrive
Registration for all pupils

8:45am - 9:00am

Chapels / Assemblies / Congregational

9:00am - 11:10am

Periods 1, 2 & 3 (40-minute periods)

11:10am

Break

11:35am - 1:00pm

Periods 4 & 5 (40-minute periods)

1:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm - 4:10pm

Periods 6, 7 & 8 (40-minute periods)

Games (Tuesday & Thursday - 2:00pm - 3:30pm)

Sample of a GCSE pupil's timetable

On Saturdays there are sports fixtures for those selected to represent the School.

Bad Weather Policy

In the event of snow or bad weather conditions St John's will always endeavour to run a full teaching programme even if some pupils are not able to get into school. For full details of our "Adverse Weather Policy", please visit the list of school policies available here.